Wiggs v. Winn’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1954
9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Loring v. Palmer · Gravlee v. Lamkin · Bibb v. Hunter · McCarthy v. McCarthy · McCandless v. Warner
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no particular formality required or necessary in the creation of a trust. All that is required is written evidence supplying every essential detail of the trust. . . . The statute of frauds will be satisfied if the trust can be manifested or proved by any subsequent acknowledgment by the trustee, as by an express declaration, or any memorandum to that effect, or by a letter under his hand, or by his answer in chancery, or by his affidavit, or by a recital in a bond or deed, or by a pamphlet written by the trustees, or by an entry in a bank-deposit book; in short, by any writing in which the fiduciary relation between the parties and its terms can be clearly read.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.